March 2001
Intermediate to advanced
1296 pages
38h 8m
English
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Chapter 13. Larger Web Site Examples I
“Things to Do When Visiting Chicago”
This chapter is the fourth part of our look at Python Internet programming, and continues the last chapter’s discussion. In the prior chapter, we explored the fundamentals of server-side CGI scripting in Python. Armed with that knowledge, in this and the following chapter we move on to two larger case studies that underscore advanced CGI topics:
- PyMailCgi
This chapter presents PyMailCgi,a web site for reading and sending email that illustrates security concepts, hidden form fields, URL generation, and more. Because this system is similar in spirit to the PyMailGui program shown in Chapter 11, this example also serves as a comparison of web and non-web applications.
- PyErrata
Chapter 14, presents PyErrata, a web site for posting book comments and bugs that introduces database concepts in the CGI domain. This system demonstrates common ways to store data persistently on the server between web transactions, and addresses concurrent update problems inherent in the CGI model.
Both of these case studies are based on CGI scripting, but implement full-blown web sites that do something more useful than the last chapter’s examples.
As usual, these chapters split their focus between application-level details and Python programming concepts. Because both of the case studies presented are fairly large, they illustrate system design concepts that are important in actual projects. They also say more about CGI scripts in general. ...
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